Dear Saint Mary Friends,
Let’s get one thing settled right away: Yes, the dark stain above the front doors to the church are a mistake – as many parishioners who have walked or driven by have told me. Evidently, the wood took the stain in an unexpected way. So it will be removed and the workers will do some tests to make sure the stain matches the doors. It’s another hiccup in the long process of renovating.
Some parishioners may remember Pope Julius being exasperated with Michelangelo’s drawn out painting of the Sistine Chapel in the Book/Movie “The Agony and The Ecstasy”. That exchange is captured here.
That said, if you want an audiovisual dose of real beauty – The Hail Mary sung in Hebrew CLICK HERE
Labor Day is Approaching
St. Joseph is the great worker saint, and one of his spiritual sons, the 20th century St. Jose Maria Escriva, had a special insight into the importance of work as a place to live out our faith.
Everyday life is the true setting for your lives as Christians. Your ordinary contact with God takes place where your fellow men, your yearnings, your work and your affections are. There you have your daily encounter with Christ. It is in the midst of the most material things of the earth that we must sanctify ourselves, serving God and all mankind…. God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, material and secular activities of human life. He waits for us every day, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fields, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work. Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine, hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.
